"anymore" = "not previously but now"

[Tony Au]

Sorry, by "Midlands" I meant "Midland American English," i.e., the dialect
spoken from about Pennsylvania to Kansas.

It's not in my dialect either (Inland North), but I have come across it once
around here (didn't ask where the speaker came from), and once in New
England, but the speaker's parents were from Pittsburgh.

Tony


On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> (1)  I thought I remembered discussion previously
> on ADS-L, but am too lazy to check the archives.
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> (2)  It's not in my dialect (east of the Hudson).
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> (3)  With reference to Tony Au, the speaker is
> U.S. (west of the Mississippi at present, I
> believe, but I don't know about her upbringing).
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> Joel
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> At 11/14/2009 03:27 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >My wife, a sixty-ish native of Northeast PA, is unable to discern what
> >makes this sentence worthy of note, unless it's, perhaps, the use of
> >
> >"... directly anyway, but for ..."
> >
> >Instead of
> >
> >"... directly, anyway. But, for ..."
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> >-Wilson
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> >On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > >  From an email message:
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> > > "Many scholarly publishers anymore send the author to the indexer
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